Monthly Archives: April, 2021

Berlin-based songwriter Oskar Brandt reckons with the dizzying aftermath of sudden heartbreak on his new single, "Imagination." The track zeroes in on that disorienting spiral where you wonder if a connection was ever authentic, or if you simply hallucinated an entire romance out of your own longing. Brandt establishes this ache early through delicate, melancholic chord movements and ambient melodic swells, capturing the hollow...

There is a dizzying, tarot-deck logic running through DreamGood’s sprawling concept album, "Paris Novella". Formed in 2009, the cinematic art-pop trio Mitchell Sloan, Joshua Heath, and Glenn Heath have long inhabited the borderlands between dancefloors and private dream states. Here, they dive straight into the theater of divination, psychic static, and existential reckoning. The record behaves like a handful of eccentric confessions pulled at...